Toledo area police prepare for potential “active shooter” incident
Controlled F.O.R.C.E. Instructors Tony Grano and Toby Flaget wrapped up F.O.R.C.E. Responder “Critical Incident / Active Shooter” Training at the Toledo Police Academy in Ohio today. Over 20 Police Officers attended this Departmental Instructor Certification course. The objective of the course is to prepare First Responders for any active shooter they may come up against with simple yet effective Small Team Tactics.
During the first two days of training, Officers worked out the basic team movements in a makeshift training environment (mock hallways and rooms set up with tables and chairs). For the second half of the course, the First Responders applied their Small Team Tactics in dynamic scenarios at a local school.
“Our goal is to help front line officers develop some simple strategies for working like operators in critical situations,” explains Instructor Grano. In developing the F.O.R.C.E. Responder Course, Controlled F.O.R.C.E. has taken a few key components of SWAT and Special Operations tactics and refined them down to a basic response capability for the Patrol Officer.
“We get three to four days to get this information to these guys,” notes Instructor Flaget, “and when they go back to their department they might get three to four hours to get it through to their guys.” The course is designed to get officers moving fast and hard, and run them through as many reps as possible in a short amount of time to make the movements second nature.
Everywhere Controlled F.O.R.C.E. has run this course, Officer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. “Many so called ‘active shooter’ courses rely heavily on table top exercises, PowerPoint presentation, and theoretical discussion on how officers should respond,” states Grano. The Controlled F.O.R.C.E. approach to training for the “active shooter” is simple: teach the Patrol Officer how to move quickly, intelligently, and effectively to get to the threat and stop any additional loss of life.
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